Word: formful
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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...published works may be mentioned "Twelve Lectures on Comparative Embryology," "Systeme Glaceale," "Lake Superior," "The Structure of Animal Life," "A Journey to Brazil," "Methods of Study in Natural History," "Contributions to the Natural History of the United States," - of which but four volumes have appeared, published in monographic form, - and others which want of space prevents us from mentioning. To accomplish all this, extensive journeys had to be undertaken, and Professor Agassiz travelled throughout the length and breadth of the United States, until he became almost as familiar with their broad expanse of country as the husbandman with...
...Charles Hallock, author of the Fishing Tourist. Its columns, as its name indicates, are devoted largely to the sports of the forest and stream, and in this line furnish the best reading possible. General sporting intelligence, however, also finds a place, and in a much more attractive and refined form than in any other American publication...
...dark drapery festooned along the galleries and caught up alternately by boughs of evergreen and by calla-lilies, gave to the whole Chapel an air of mourning, and yet of hopeful and of almost triumphant mourning, which every one there must have felt to be most appropriate. The form of service used at King's Chapel - the one which Agassiz himself preferred, we believe - was read by the Rev. Dr. Peabody. The singing, under the direction of Mr. Paine, was by the Glee Club; they sang, and very impressively, Cherubini's Pie Jesu, and a hymn for which the music...
...view of the success of the French and German clubs, steps have been taken to form an English society. We hope it will receive the hearty support it deserves...
...barrier between himself and his associates, ought to be strenuously guarded against by all such, and he should endeavor, by a more friendly association with his friends, to call into action those hidden springs of feeling which all possess to a greater or less degree, needing only culture to form the strong ties of friendships which are as oases along the otherwise desert path of life...